If I understand well, nothing is odd.
When the layout is visible (gray border), the 'button' is entitled "Hide Layout" to give us the ability to suppress the gray border.
When the layout is invisible (no gray border), the 'button' is entitled "Show Layout" to give us the ability to display the gray border.
This switch of button title is a frequent feature.
Incidentally, is there any way of saying you want, say, a 96 pp document to start with?
There is no direct access to this scale value.
We may do the trick using the brute force.
control click the document's icon to get the contextual menu allowing us to "Show Package Contents". Select this item.
You will see the contents of the package.
Double click the icon "Index.xml.gz" to expand it as "Index.xml".
Drag "Index.xml.gz" on the desktop for safe.
Open "Index.xml" with TextEdit or with the free TextWrangler.
Search for the string "page-scale".
Leave the 1st occurence as is.
Go to the second one (it's the last one).
You will find something like that:
<sl:window-configs sl:layout-version="5">
<sl:window-config sl:frame="356 62 1106 1116 0 0 1920 1178 " sl:guides-visible="false" sl:page-scale="
0.75" sl:sidebar-paragraph-pct="0.39974617958068848" sl:sidebar-character-pct="0.29949238896369934" sl:sidebar-list-pct="0.30076143145561218">
<sl:selection>
edit the numerical value which is just after the searched string.
Here it was 0.75, replace it by 0.96
Save the Index.xml.
Open the Pages document.
The used scale factor will be the wanted 0.96.
Check that all works well. Save the doc.
You may now trash the "Index.xml.gz" which is on the desktop.
Happy scaling.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 6 novembre 2008 19:27:29)